Vocabulary Unit 1
Write the synonym of continue with
Stick with
Find the word with the opposite meaning of original
counterfeit
Choose the correct options: My parents live/are living in a flat while the builders work/are working on their house
are living/ are working
Complete the sentences with the correct past perfect or past simple form of the verbs in brackets
I ___ (be) very tired because I ____ (not sleep) all night.
Was / Hadn’t slept
Which of these three words means cause something to happen:
bring about
stick with
bring up
bring about
Write one word for this definition: Continued with your ambition until the end
Follow it through
Write one word for this definition: Behave in an specific way to make someone believe something that isn’t true
pretend
2.Rewrite the sentence using the gerund or infinitive of the verb in brackets.
Have you ever been afraid of _______ (touch) animals?
Have you ever been afraid of touching animals?
When do we use the past perfect continuous?
For a completed past action which happened before another action or point in time in the past
Write two nouns or two adjective from this verb: Stimulate
stimulation, stimulus, stimulating, stimulated
Fill the gap in this sentence: While I was writing my essay I got ______ and I lost a lot of time
stuck
Give a meaning to this word: counterfeit
make an imitation of something
Rewrite the following sentence using the passive:
The bank lent money to many villagers
Many villagers were lent money by the bank
Which is the structure of the past perfect passive?
Subject + Had Been + Verb Third Column
Which sentence is correct?
They bring up the wood from the river to the house.
Yesterday the teacher brought up feminism in class
Yesterday the teacher brought up feminism in class
Fill the gaps and create words from vocabulary:
- _r_a_ u_
- d_yd_e_m
dream up, daydream
Fill the gaps: I don’t know this portrait is _c_ u _ _ or it’s a r_ pl_ _ _, it has a lot of si _ _ l _ r _ t_ _ s with the _r_ g _ n_l
actual, replica, similarities, original
Complete the gaps using the present perfect continuous of the verb in brackets.
Why ___________ he ___________ (avoid) talking to me lately?
Has / Been avoiding
What do you need to change from a normal sentence, to convert it into a Negative Inversion?
You need to invert the auxiliary verb and also the subject
Write one noun and one adjective from this verb: Resemble
resemblance, resemblant
Identify the word that doesn’t fit in with the text and replace it with one word from vocabulary.
A few days ago, I read about the sale of a very interesting painting at Christie’s in New York in late 2028. A car called Edmond De Belamy, which had been created using a computer system called a neural network, was sold for 432,500$ at an auction.
Portrait
Make a sentence that follows this one using two words of vocabulary: I bought this painting in an auction but an expert said me that it costs a lot less than what I payed, that is because
it was a counterfeit but was very similar to the original, so I thought it was original.
Rewrite the sentence using the word in brackets
Why can’t I remember where I put my mobile phone? (only)
If only I remembered where I put my mobile phone
Rewrite the following sentences using the negative inversion:
I had never seen such a beautiful sunset
They no longer believed in the success of the project
Never had I seen such a beautiful sunset
No longer did they believe in the success of the project
Find three phrasal verbs that contain these words: up, get, out
bring up, get inspiration/get stuck, check out